"When you write for Fascintern media, you are choosing to publish with them. When you post on X you are basically pitching a story to Der Stürmer. You are not speaking to anyone that they don't want you speaking to. You're not being courageous; you're collaborating. You're associating your name with that outlet. And you're making them money."
@robin, 2025
https://berjon.com/fascintern-media/
This pieces clearly articulates thoughts I've been pulling at the edges of for years
"This isn’t brainwashing - people don’t have to internalize this or that aspect of what social media presents to them, radically changing their beliefs and their sense of who they are. That sometimes happens, but likely far more rarely than we think. The more important change is to our beliefs about what other people think, which we perpetually update based on social observation."
#HenryFarrell, 2025
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis
ie 'nudging'. You read this piece @pluralistic?
